George Cruikshank’s Comic Alphabet
January 23, 2019
You might like to see other work by George Cruikshank
Jack Sheppard, Thief, Highwayman & Escapologist
The Bloody Romance of the Tower
Henry Mayhew’s Punch & Judy Man
and these other alphabets
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Wonderful!
Very Dickensian.
How wonderful! These made me laugh. I think X is my favourite!
Just the thing to cheer up a very cold January day.
Thank you
Greetings to you GA, from Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire
Quite brilliant. Seems he’d just been to the zoo. Paganini gets a look in.
Amusing, Brilliant, Comic, Droll, Entertaining, Funny, Grotesque, Hysterical, Imaginative,
Joyous, Knowing, Laugh-out-loud, Magical, Nonsense, Observational, Priceless, Quaint, Ridiculous, Silly, Tittermaking, Unserious, Virtuosic, Witty, Xtraordinary, Yoomerous (I’m struggling here!) and Zany…
Any illustrated alphabet that includes “Y for Yawning” is tops with me. What a hearty array of
eccentric characters, costumes, surroundings, and folk lore. Now, help me out — Exactly
WHO were Isaac and John?
Many thanks, GA!
I have a reprint of this which is folded up like a concertina. Either D for Dining Out, E for Equality and L for Latitude and Longitude are my favourites. All the designs so show wit and imagination combined with character.